Changeset 768efb56 for chapter07/profile.xml

Timestamp:

04/17/2005 11:27:20 AM (19 years ago)

Author:

Matthew Burgess <matthew@…>

Branches:

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Children:

f9bd7b2

Parents:

8807fbe

Message:

• Use canonical charmaps in /etc/profile and don't set LC_ALL

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@4984 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter07/profile.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

chapter07/profile.xml

@@ -61 +61 @@
 two-letter code for the desired language (e.g., <quote>en</quote>) and
 <replaceable>[CC]</replaceable> with the two-letter code for the
-appropriate country (e.g., <quote>GB</quote>). It may also be
-necessary to specify (and this is actually the preferred form) the
-character encoding (e.g.  <quote>iso8859-1</quote>) after a dot (so
-that the result is <quote>en_GB.iso8859-1</quote>).  Issue the
-following command for more information:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>man 3 setlocale</userinput></screen>
+appropriate country (e.g., <quote>GB</quote>).
+<replaceable>[charmap]</replaceable> should be replaced with the
+canonical charmap for your chosen locale.</para>
 
 <para>The list of all locales supported by Glibc can be obtained by running
@@ -73 +69 @@
 
 <screen><userinput>locale -a</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>Locales can have a number of synonyms, e.g. <quote>ISO-8859-1</quote> is
+also referred to as <quote>iso8859-1</quote> and <quote>iso88591</quote>.
+Some applications cannot handle the various synonyms correctly, so it is safest
+to choose the canonical name for a particular locale.  To determine the
+canonical name, run the following command, where
+<replaceable>[locale name]</replaceable> is the output given by
+<command>locale -a</command> for your preferred locale
+(<quote>en_GB.iso88591</quote> in our example).</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>LC_ALL=<replaceable>[locale name]</replaceable> locale charmap</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>For the <quote>en_GB.iso88591</quote> locale, the above command
+will print:</para>
+
+<screen>ISO-8859-1</screen>
+
+<para>This results in in a final locale setting of <quote>en_GB.ISO-8859-1</quote>.</para>
 
 <para>Once the proper locale settings have been determined, create the
@@ -80 +94 @@
 <literal># Begin /etc/profile
 
-export LC_ALL=<replaceable>[ll]</replaceable>_<replaceable>[CC]</replaceable>
-export LANG=<replaceable>[ll]</replaceable>_<replaceable>[CC]</replaceable>
+export LANG=<replaceable>[ll]</replaceable>_<replaceable>[CC]</replaceable>.<replaceable>[charmap]</replaceable>
 export INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc